Kreisfreie Stadt Aschaffenburg City Map Poster

About Kreisfreie Stadt Aschaffenburg

The town is referred to as "Fränkische Stadt" (Franconian city) in order to distinguish it from the district. Aschaffenburg lies in the Main-Rhine Euroregion, which comprises a continuous chain of directly neighboring settlements starting at the French border and ending just before Frankfurt Airport. The town's total land area is 65% wooded. It is situated on both sides of the Main in a flat landscape that contains few hills and no mountains or valleys. In the north, Aschaffenburg borders on Lower Franconia; in southern direction it adjoins to Upper Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia). In this context, one speaks of "Obermainfranken" when referring to those areas; however, there are no clear geographical demarcation lines between these two regions because they form a continuum within each other with little geographic differences between them except for their names ("Mainfranken" = Lower Franconia vs Obermain = Upper Bavaria).